Is it safe to turn off proxy?
I use WLAN access points and there is a possibility that our users may behind a proxy. In such cases I would like them to be able to access the network. So I was wondering whether it's possible to tell them to turn off proxy on their PC? Or can they do this themselves by setting the IE option to never ask for proxy details again (but I'm not sure how to do this)?
I have tried the following solutions: 1) Download the update and install the update. 2) Turn off the proxy setting in IE. 3) Clear history and cookies. But in the end, none of these works. Any ideas? 2 Answers.
Well if its not working then I would guess it's not something that you can really do anything about other than trying to educate your users, and maybe asking them to turn on/off any firewalls etc. That may be in the way.
I would guess that what might be happening is that the HTTP proxy settings are using a specific method of communication (usually TCP port 80 for HTTPS traffic) and so your users are having to go through the proxy before being able to reach your target (ie: ), and because your proxy is configured to allow proxying inbound traffic only, it is trying to reach example.com before hitting the proxy and sending traffic back out again, but it's going out to the internet via port 80 instead of going through the proxy.
Your users may have firewalls in the way of course, but there may also be a DNS server getting in the way and caching the IP address of your target which may mean that if they were to clear their cache then they would bypass the proxy, since the IP address of example.com will change depending on how many people use the name.
If your proxy is using port 80 for HTTPS traffic (eg: a reverse proxy is configured to use port 80 for HTTPS traffic when proxying to ) and your users are behind a firewall then the behaviour described above is what will happen. You could try a test. The following two URLs both work for me and give the same results.
How do I disable proxy server on Iphone?
I am using Iphone and I am behind a proxy server.
But when I connect to the internet, it automatically use the proxy server provided by my ISP. I have the ip address from where I connect to the internet.
But the problem is I can't able to open the web sites which are hosted in the internet. I get these errors. And when I try to go through the apple help center, it won't even let me go into that. How can I disable this proxy so that I can get into the apple help center? If the proxy that you use is dynamic (that is, the Internet connection points to your local IP address), then the solution is easy: just configure the proxy settings on the iPhone yourself. Go to Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data. Check Proxy settings (if it's not enabled by default). Configure the proxy settings (such as IP address, port, timeout, etc).
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